Digital Blog Post #G

First, I found the topic of using technology with linguistically diverse learners every interesting. I believe that having the internet is a great thing to use to be able to help teacher educate students who speak another language. Online language translation services like Google Translate are great for teachers to use because it give them a chance to provide all of their lecture in both languages for the student so that they can understand the lecture and so they can begin to connect the English words to the other languages words. Another important thing that teachers should use is multilingual web resources. They need to use them because it gives the student the information in more than just one language. use technology is important because it lets the student take the work home so that they can continue to work when they are home. They can get extra work done on their free time if they want to get better.

Second, I found the topic on the electronic speller and dictionaries an interesting topic. Using those electronic spellers are a great tool to use with the student the don't speak english because it helps them and the teacher. Instead of having the student interrupt the class while time they have a question on a certain word they can type it in their electronic speller and it help them sound out the word which helps build their sounding out skills. And a dictionary can also help the student find other word that are similar to the word they are trying to find. Student also begin to make the connect with the english word and their languages words.

Third, calculators are great tools that students need to learn how to use. Student need to have a good understanding on how to use a basic calculator, a scientific calculator, and graphing calculator by the time they get to college because most of the math they do will require them to be fluent with a calculator. Math is not the only place that you will need to know how to use a calculator. You also need a calculator in science. If you know how to use a calculator math will be easy.

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

James Gill (2009, September 16). Using Google translate in class Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9wHkhuaek